Betty White Hosts SNL – Finally!

After a huge push by users on social networking sites like Facebook, Betty White Night is upon us. She will be hosting Saturday Night Live this weekend. I noticed Jay-Z is the musical guest. Wouldn’t it be great if Beyonce made a surprise musical guest appearance and she and Betty did Single Ladies?

Do: Everything Lorne Michaels tells you to do. Trust in Lorne, and only Lorne. He is god and master here. He will take care of you.

Do not: Be afraid. Fear is natural, for as Tom Hanks recalled in “Live From New York,” Tom Shales’ history of “SNL,” “the first time … you’re that combination of absolutely terrified but also kind of dizzy.”

Do: Stretch. Get out of character. Be someone no one ever imagined you could be. Think (for example) Gwyneth Paltrow doing Sharon Stone back in 1999; people still remember that one, Stone included.

Do not: Do commercial parodies. The temptation will be there, particularly post-Super Bowl. But these are difficult to pull off. Unless Lorne tells you to.